Society for Educating Women - Second International Conference
July 31 - August 1, 2009 University of New Hampshire
OPENING SESSION AND WELCOME Friday, July 31 - 8:30 - 9:00
Piscataqua Room
Susan Douglas Franzosa, Fairfield University, Conference Chair
GENERAL SESSION A - Friday, July 31 - 9:00 - 10:00
Piscataqua Room
"By a Lady of New Hampshire:"
New Hampshire Women as Innovators in American Literature
Barbara A. White, University of New Hampshire
Introduced by Susan Douglas Franzosa, Fairfield University
CONCURRENT SESSIONS Friday, July 31
Fri/Session I. a: 10:15 - 11:45
19th Century Educational Reformers
Salmon Falls Room
Black Education: The Antebellum Thought of Mary Ann Shadd Cary
and Frederick Douglass
Carol B. Conaway, University of New Hampshire
Advocates for the Education of Spanish Women: Rosario de
Acuña, Concepción Arenal and Emilia Pardo Bazán
Beth Ann Green-Nagle, Oklahoma Baptist University
Rebecca Pennell: Her Journey from Normal School Student to
College Professor
Kelly Ann Kolodny, Framingham State College
Session Chair: Lucy Townsend, Northern Illinois University
Fri/Session I. b: 10:15 - 11:45
Gender, Identity, and Schooling
Lamprey Room
The Gender Neutral World: Third-Graders Conscious & Unconscious
Understanding of Gender-Neutral Job Titles
Clare J. Dannenberg, Virginia Tech
Identity, Transitions, Mathematics, and Teacher Preparation
Jennifer Sarah Goldberg, Fairfield University
Session Chair: Carol Mulligan, Colby Sawyer College
Fri/Session I. c: 10:15 - 11:45
Countering Violence Against Women and LGBT Students on Campus and in the Curriculum
Piscataqua Room
Rereading AAUW's Tech-Savvy: A Prolegomenon to Rethink
Computer Technology Education for Girls
Jan Handwerk, University of Oklahoma
Know Your Power: Step in, Step Up: The UNH Bringing In the
Bystander Program
Mary Moynihan, University of New Hampshire
Session Chair: Cari Moorhead, University of New Hampshire
LUNCH BREAK 12:00 - 1:00
GENERAL SESSION B - Friday, July 31 1:00 - 2:00
Piscataqua Room
Make New Friends But Keep the Old: The Girl Scout Idea of Educating
Girls and Women
Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma
Introduced by Connie Titone, Villanova University
CONCURRENT SESSIONS Friday, July 31
Fri/Session II. a: 2:15 - 3:45
Women Coming of Age in Academe
Lamprey Room
Women Balancing Personal and Professional Lives
Maike Ingrid Philipsen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Educating Girls and Women: (White) Women Faculty in Higher
Education
Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon, University of Tennessee
Mothering/Professoring: Symbiotic Curricula
Linda Ann Hoeptner Poling, Kent State University
Session Chair: Jane Roland Martin, University of Massachusetts-
Boston
Fri/Session II. b: 2:15 - 3:45
Extending Educational Opportunities for Girls and Women
Salmon Falls Room
What Good Girls Need to Know and Do: A Qualitative Study of School
& Home Literacy Practices in Rural Pakistan
Amna Latif, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Silence No More: A Transformative Transcendental Phenomenological
Presentation of the Experiences of Teen Mothers Who Go to College
in the Rural Southeast
Angela M Rogers, Clemson University
Perceptions of Learning of Women Enrolled in a Homeless Education
Program
Julia Zoino-Jeannetti, Framingham State University
Session Chair: Linda Chen Einsiedler, Connecting Points Solutions
LLC
Fri/Session II. c: 2:15 - 3:45
Piscataqua Room
The Harriet Wilson Project
Jerri-Anne Boggis,
Director, the Harriet Wilson Project
GENERAL SESSION C - Friday, July 31, 4:00 - 5:00
Piscataqua Room
Some "Great" Women Artists: Re-visioning an Inclusive Art History
Curriculum
Mara Witzling, University of New Hampshire
Introduced by Lucy Townsend, Northern Illinois University
RECEPTION - 5:15 - 7:00
Squamscott Room
CONCURRENT SESSIONS Saturday, August 1
Sat/Session III. a: 8:30 - 10:00
Recovering the Contributions of Women to Educational Thought
Piscataqua Room
The Power of Knowing: Student Responses to Women's Reclamation
Work in the Philosophy of Education
Teresa Genevieve Wojcik and Connie Titone, Villanova University
Exploring Delta Kappa Gamma: The Work of Dr. Annie Blanton, Mrs.
Jean McLeod, and the Zeta Alpha Chapter of Matagorda County,
Texas
Molly McLeod Mirll, University of Oklahoma
The Dark Night of the Soul and the Writings of Elizabeth Madox
Roberts
Sharon M.L. Peelor, University of Oklahoma
Session Chair: Sarah M. Stitzlein, University of New Hampshire
Sat/Session III. b: 8:30 - 10:00
Across Generations and Cultures: Women Scholars in Academe
Salmon Falls Room
Stephanie Burrell, Susan Franzosa, Jennifer Goldberg, and Emily
Smith Fairfield University
Maike Ingrid Philipsen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sat/Session III. c: 8:30 - 10:00
More than Title IX: How Equity in Education Has Shaped the Nation
Lamprey Room
Katherine Hanson, Vivian, EDC Inc.;
Victoria Budson, Harvard Kennedy School of Government;
Erika Kates, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College
CONCURRENT SESSIONS Saturday, August 1
Sat/Session IV. a: 10:15 - 11:45
Reconsidering Co-Education
Piscataqua Room
Spiritedness and Single Sex Schooling
Amy B. Shuffelton, University of Wisconsin
From Mary Wollstonecraft to Cyberspace: Changing Coeducational
Landscapes for 21st Century Women Online
Julia Kathryne Daine, University of Oklahoma
Session Chair: Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma
Sat/Session IV. b: 10:15 - 11:45
Engaging College Women in the Process of Discovering Their Fierce and Fabulous Selves: A Group Approach to Women's Empowerment in the 21st Century
Salmon Falls Room
Dawn D. Zitney and Corey Brown
University of New Hampshire
Sat/Session IV. c: 10:15 - 11:45
LUNCH BREAK - 12:00 -1:00
GENERAL SESSION D - Saturday, August 1, 1:00 - 2:00
Piscataqua Room
What Can Women Teach Us About Reason and Justice? A Critique
and Revision of Jurgen Habermas's Paradigm of Communicative
Reason
Patrocinio Schweickart, Purdue University
Introduced by Susan Douglas Franzosa, Fairfield University
CONCURRENT SESSIONS Saturday, August 1
Sat/Session V. a: 2:15 - 3:45
Transnational and Comparative Research on Women and Education
Salmon Falls Room
Entreprenuerial Empowerment in Afghanistan and Rwanda
Martha Parker-Magagna, University of New Hampshire
Contradictory Messages? Perceptions of Education and Marriage
Among Urban, Middle Class Women in India
Anjali Kothari, Institute of Education, London University, UK
Session Chair: Carol Hawkins, Colby College
SAT/Session V. b: 2:15 - 3:45
Auto/Biographical Discourse and the Education of Girls and Women
Piscataqua Room
Adolescent Women's Bodies as Landscapes for A/r/tographical
Inquiry
Karen E Dresser, American Hebrew Academy
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Lives: Auto/Biography in
Educational Settings
Lucy Townsend, Northern Illinois University
"Aesthetic Disclosure": Rhetorical Self-Fashioning in the Education of
Women and Girls
Susan Birden, Buffalo State College
Session Chair: Mara Witzling, University of New Hampshire
GENERAL SESSION D - Saturday, August 1, 4:00 - 5:00
Piscataqua Room
Reclaiming the Broad Sense of Education
Jane Roland Martin, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Introduced by Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma
CLOSING SESSION - 5:15 - 6:00
Participant Discussion: What Next for SEW?
Piscataqua Room
Moderators: Susan Franzosa, Susan Laird, and Lucy Townsend
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GENERAL SESSIONS - OVERVIEW
Friday, July 31, 9:00 - 10:00
"By a Lady of New Hampshire:"
New Hampshire Women as Innovators in American Literature
Barbara A. White, Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire and Research Director of the Harriet Wilson Project, has written and edited several books on American women writers including Hidden Hands: An Anthology of American Women Writers (1985); Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction (1985); Edith Wharton: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991); The Beecher Sisters (2003) and Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing and Region (2007).
Friday, July 31, 1:00 - 2:00
Make New Friends But Keep the Old: The Girl Scout Idea of Educating Girls and Women
Susan Laird, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, Women's Studies and Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma, co-founder of the Society for Educating Women, recent past president of the Philosophy of Education Society, is the editor of Philosophy of Education 1997 and author of Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophical Mother of Coeducation (2008), Prof. Laird administers online development of SEW, including its forthcoming journal, Educating Women.
Friday, July 31, 4:00 - 5:00
Some "Great" Women Artists: Re-visioning an Inclusive Art History Curriculum
Mara Witzling, Professor of Women's Studies and the Arts, University of New Hampshire, feminist art historian and activist, is the author and editor of Mary Cassatt: A Private World (1991); Voicing Our Visions: Writings by Women Artists (1992); and Voicing Today's Visions: Writing by Contemporary Women Artists (1994).
Saturday, August 1, 1:00 - 2:00
What Can Women Teach Us About Reason and Justice? A Critique and Revision of Jurgen Habermas's Paradigm of Communicative Reason
Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Professor of English and Women's Studies and Interim Director of Asian American Studies at Purdue University, served as the editor of NWSA Journal from 1990-1997. Her publications include Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading; Engendering Critical Discourse (1987); Reading, Teaching, and the Ethic of Care (1990); and co-editor, with Elizabeth A. Flynn, of Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts (1986) and Reading Sites: Gender, Race, Class, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation (2007).
Saturday, August 1, 4:00 - 5:00
Reclaiming the Broad Sense of Education
Jane Roland Martin, Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Education, University of Massachusetts-Boston, preeminent philosopher of education, is the author of Reclaiming a Conversation (1985); The Schoolhome (1992); Changing the Educational Landscape (1994); Coming of Age in Academe: Rekindling Women's Hopes and Reforming the Academy ((2000); Cultural Miseducation (2002); and Educational Metamorphoses: Philosophical Reflections on Identity & Culture (2007).